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Webster 1913 Edition
Tercelet
Terce′let
,Noun.
(Zool.)
A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
tercelet
tercelet
English
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Noun
tercelet (plural tercelets)
- A male falcon, especially a peregrine falcon or goshawk; a tercel.
- 1999, Geoffrey Lester, Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays, page 110:
- In the Squire's Tale this is expressed in avian terms when the tercelet flies off with a kite;
- 1999, Geoffrey Lester, Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays, page 110:
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Middle English
Noun
tercelet
- tercelet
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Squire's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:
- Tho dwelte a tercelet me faste by, / That semed welle of alle gentillesse
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